| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War by Frederick A. Talbot: Upon the outbreak of hostilities Germany's dirigible fleet was in
a condition of complete preparedness, was better organised, and
better equipped than that of any of her rivals. At the same time
it constituted more of a paper than a fighting array for reasons
which I will explain later. But there was another point which
had escaped general observation. Standardisation of parts and
the installation of the desired machinery had accomplished one
greatly desired end--the construction of new craft had been
accelerated. Before the war an interesting experiment was
carried out to determine how speedily a vessel could be built.
The result proved that a dirigible of the most powerful type
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Confidence by Henry James: she was suddenly presenting him with a chance to ask
her the question that Blanche Evers had just suggested.
Two or three other things as well occurred to him.
Captain Lovelock had been struck with the fact that she
favored Gordon Wright's addresses to her daughter, and Captain
Lovelock had a grotesque theory that she had set her heart
upon seeing this young lady come into six thousand a year.
Miss Evers's devoted swain had never struck Bernard as a
brilliant reasoner, but our friend suddenly found himself
regarding him as one of the inspired. The form of depravity
into which the New England conscience had lapsed on Mrs. Vivian's
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Contrast by Royall Tyler: walked softly and grave as a minister; and when I
came there, the dogs a bit of a meeting-house could I
see. At last I spied a young gentlewoman standing
by one of the seats which they have here at the
doors. I took her to be the deacon's daughter, and
she looked so kind, and so obliging, that I thought I
would go and ask her the way to lecture, and--would
you think it?--she called me dear, and sweeting, and
honey, just as if we were married: by the living jingo,
I had a month's mind to buss her.
JESSAMY
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